Match-box.



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EDGAR. inf'nox Nici-rots, or MOUNT aim', Nourri c i :china MATcHox.

State of North Carolina, have invented new i and useful Im )rovenients in Matcli-Boxes,

of which the fol owing is a specification.

This invention is an improved match e]ecting match box, adapted, when its cover is v open, to automatically partially eject amatch so that the latter may be readily grasped and withdrawn from the match box and which, as the match is thus withdrawn from the match box, will serve to ignite such match,

and the said invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the match box embodying my invention, howing the same closed.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the saine o en. Fig. 3 1s a detail elevation of the p unger which serves to automatically e]ect the matches.

A match box 1, which may be of any suitable size, shape and construction and may also be made of any suitable material, is provided with an inner compartment 2 for the reception of the matches, a chamber 3 being formed between contiguous side walls of the box and the compartment and a chamber 4 which communicates' with the lower end of such chamber 3, being formed between the bottoms of the box and the com iartment.

le of the box, as at 6, is ot sufhcient size, covers the upper ends of the com artment 2 and of the chamber 3. The sai( cover is provided in its free side with an opening 7. A spring S which is 40 disposed in the chamber 3 has its lower end secured, as at 9, to one side of the box. The free, upper end of the said spring is outturned and bears againstl the hinge sideof the cover 5, as at 10, so tha t the said spring, when the cover is released by the means lieremater described, serves to open such cover.

On the inner side 0f vthe common wall of t-lie box 1 and match compartment 2 is secured the 'lower edge of a spring cat-cli 11 which is provided near its upper, free end with a hook or lip 12 to pass through the opening 7 and secure the cover in closed position. A push but-ton 13 projects outwardly from the said spring catchand extends Specification of Letters Patent. i

application aie-a July 2,1907. serial No. $81,821.

' contact, as at 21.

Y end o the lever 17 bears and is slidable on the .for

Pat-entevdrept. 15, 1908.

in through an opening 14 in the common wall of the match box and match coin artment, as shown.

ing such push button, the spring catch will be disengaged from the cover and the latter will be opened by the spring 8.

In that end of the bottom of the match compartment 2 which is nearest the common wall of the box Vand such compartment is an opening in which operates a. cylindrical match ejecting lunger 15. The same isprovided near its ower end with a transveise -opening 1G. A pair of leveis 1718 are pivotallv mounted, as at 19-20, in thc chamber 4 below the bottom of the compartment 2. The inner ends lot such leveis are in sliding That is to say, the inner inner end of the lever 1S. Hence said levers form a compound lever. r1`lie outer end of the lever 1S extends through and is freely movable in the opening 16 of the plunger. The outer end of the lever 17 is connected pivotally, as at 22, to the lower end of a rod 23, which rod extends upwardly through the chamber 3 and has its upper end pivotally connected to the cover as at 24. Hence, when the cover is opened by the action of the s ring S, as hercinbefore stated, said rod 23 is dliawn longitudinally in one direction by the l said cover and causes the lever 17 to so operate upon the lever 1S as to cause the latter to move the plunger upwardly in the bottom and at the outer side of the match compartment.

The matches, indicated at a, arc placed in It will be understood, `t iat by press the compartment 2 head down so as to bear against t ie bottom of such compartment. A spring 25 in .the said compartment and the upper end of which is attached, as at 26., 'to thel upper portion of the inner wall of such compartment, bears outwardly affainst the' matches so as to force them toward the outer side of the match compartment and cause one of them, when the covei is closed and the plunger is lowered, to hear on the upper end of such plunger. Hence, when the cover is open and the compound lever and plunger are nerated by the movement of the cover, the plunger, as it moves upwardly, will force the outermost one of the matches upwardly so that its stem will be projected above the open upper end of the match box, to enable the same to be readily grasped. rl`he oppo- Sitesidewalls of the match comA artmentv are, in practice, roughenedto provi e friction surfaces which serve, as a match is withdrawn from the said compartment to rub against the head and ignite such match.

In addition to t-he compartment 2, the match box may` be iovided with another compartment to hoh matches, which may from time to time "be taken therefrom and )laced in the compartment 2, asthe latter becomes empty.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v

1. Amatch box having an inner compartment s aced from one side and the bottom thereo and also having a hinged cover, a' plunger at one side and the bottom of the inner compartment, means to move the matches in such direction as to cause one of them to register with the plunger, a rod in the space at one side of the inner compartment and connected to the cover, and a lever in the space between the bottoms of the-box and inner compartment, said lever connected to the said rod rnd the said plunger and causing the plunger to be automatically operated to elect ja match when the cover is opened.

*2. A match box havin@ an inner compartment spaced from one sirIe and also from the bottom thereof, said box further havmg a. lnnged cover, a plunger at one side and the bottom of the inner compartment, means to .move the matches in such direction as to cause one of them to register with. the plunger, a rod in the space at one side of the inner compartment and connected to the cover, and a compound lever in the space between the Vbottoms of the box and inner compartment, one of the members of the compound .lever being connected to the rod, the other EDGAR BYRON NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

S. A. HAUSER, B. M. NICHOLS.- 

